Confession (Ying Cheng) - Chapter 87

At three o’clock in the morning, Xu Sui was still sleeping in the arms of a man, but she had a nightmare, dreaming that Hu Qianxi jumped off the cliff in front of her, Xu Sui caught a moment, and finally gasped. Waking up from a dream.

Zhou Jingze was awakened, helped her get up, turned on the bedside lamp, poured a glass of warm water and handed it to her. Xu Sui snuggled in his arms, in a cold sweat, his throat tightened, his lips pressed against the mouth of the cup, and he drank water.

Zhou Jingze’s palm was against her cheek, her thumb joint pinned the hair on her forehead behind her ear, her voice was a little rusty, and she asked, “What’s the matter?”

Xu Sui took two sips of water and swallowed: “I dreamed that something happened to Xixi.”

Zhou Jingze tightened the hand that was holding her arm unconsciously, and his eyes dimmed for a moment. When he was about to say something, the phone ringing by the bed rang, and the sharp sound cut through the tranquility of the night.

Sheng Nanzhou calls.

Zhou Jingze clicked to answer, and without saying a word on the other end of the phone, the expression on his face changed, his eyebrows pressed down with emotions: “We will be there soon.”

“Sixi went to the hospital, the situation is a bit serious.” Zhou Jingze whispered with his head tilted.

Xu Sui jumped uncomfortably, and immediately lifted the quilt, stepped barefoot on the floor, and started looking for clothes, his tone anxious: “Then let’s go there.”

Zhou Jingze looked at the woman who was hurriedly putting on clothes and wearing the sweater backwards, and took her hand, the two of them looked at him, his tone was slow:

“Let me tell you something first, Xixi actually has congenital heart disease, which was detected at the age of five. Recently…maybe the situation has become more serious.”

Xu Sui stood there, feeling cold all over, unable to say a word. Ren Zhou Jingze leaned over to fasten her buttons, put on her coat, and her scarf. She was like a puppet, led by a man out of the car and got into the car.

In Puren Hospital, when Zhou Jingze and Xu Sui rushed to the emergency room, they saw Sheng Nanzhou leaning against the wall, head slightly tilted, eyes closed, and the cold white lights of the hospital hit his side, silent and cold.

Half cold light, half shadow, Xu Sui even suspected that his whole person had melted with the gray wall behind him.

Zhou Jingze walked over and asked, “How is it now?”

Sheng Nanzhou opened his eyes, and the three people kept looking at the direction of the operating room. The red lights were on to indicate the emergency. Sheng Nanzhou rolled out words from his throat with difficulty:

“In the middle of the night, she suddenly had chest tightness and couldn’t breathe, and she couldn’t relieve her after taking the medicine. She called me urgently. When I rushed over, she… was lying on the ground.”

Zhou Jingze asked: “Does her parents know?”

“I didn’t say, she didn’t let me say it before, I guess I won’t be able to hide it tomorrow.” Sheng Nanzhou replied.

After questioning, the three people kept silent for a long time. They waited for two hours. At five o’clock in the morning, with a “slap”, the lights in the operating room went out, and the doctor stepped on the door of the induction room and walked out.

They gathered around, and the doctor turned his head to remove the mask and said, “The patient is not in serious trouble for the time being, but her heart organ function is failing, her blood vessels are blocked, and the heart failure caused before is now in an advanced stage. It is recommended to wait for the patient to wake up. Check it thoroughly…”

Sheng Nanzhou grasped the key words, his eyes stunned: “Doctor, what does it mean to cause heart failure before?”

The doctor took off the entire mask from the side of the ear, and was stunned: “Don’t the family members of the patient know? Her casebook record shows that heart failure was detected six years ago.”

After the doctor finished speaking, he left. Sheng Nanzhou didn’t say a word. He turned his back and punched hard against the wall. On the back of his hand, there was a stone attached to the flesh, which was blurred, and he immediately saw blood.

Six years ago, just after graduation, Hu Qianxi joined the International Wildlife Rescue Organization despite the opposition of family members and the concerns of friends.

Everyone thought that Hu Xixi was playing around, thinking that she just came back after playing a fresh game. No one thought that she persisted for so many years.

Xu Sui still remembers the scene of asking her why she had to work in such a difficult environment.

Hu Qianxi replied with a grin: “Of course I want to shine and warm up in my limited life, to warm others.”

Xu Sui thought her words were perfunctory at the time, but she didn’t expect that the joke was hiding her greatest sincerity for life.

Hu Qianxi quickly turned into the ward, they followed, and through a layer of glass, Xu Sui looked over. Hu Qianxi was lying on the hospital bed with a frightened face, as thin as a shaky leaf.

After restraining his emotions all night, he finally couldn’t hold back, his nose sour, and tears fell from his eyes.

Zhou Jingze hugged her into his arms, and Xu Sui lay on his shoulder while crying, thinking, how could there be such a stupid person.

It’s no wonder that Hu Qianxi took a one-month leave for freshman admission and did not participate in military training. Hu Qianxi did not participate in running exercises every morning at the university. She explained that she was too lazy to run, so she asked her family to find a related doctor to issue a case certificate, and Hu Qianxi often disappeared inexplicably for a period of time before returning.

There was also the Beishan Ski Resort, why didn’t she think about it, Xixi, a person who grew up in the north, yearned for skiing. Sheng Nanzhou insisted on letting everyone go together, originally to realize Hu Xixi’s wish.

Xu Suiyue wanted to cry harder. These things are clearly traceable. Why can’t she care more about her? Maybe the situation is different.

Sheng Nanzhou glanced at the time on the watch, walked over, and said, “It’s almost dawn. You two should go back to wash up and go to work. I just stay here.”

“I’m in the general surgery room. Call me something.” Xu Sui spoke again, feeling his throat stuck.

“Um.”

At ten o’clock in the morning, Xu Sui took advantage of the break and ran to the inpatient department to see Hu Xixi. Hu Qianxi was already awake, she was sitting leaning on the head of the bed with a needle in the back of her hand, and she was bruised.

Seeing Xu Sui coming, Hu Qianxi raised her lips and smiled at her.

There was a layer of wetness in his eyes, Xu Sui secretly pinched his palm with his nails, forced the tears back, and gave her a gentle smile.

“You know it, hey, the game failed.” Hu Qianxi stuck out his tongue.

Xu Sui walked over, held her hand, and said with a smile: “It’s not a failure, but we will accompany you to clear the game.”

“Don’t worry, the doctor in your heart is my colleague, and when I was studying in Hong Kong, I recognized an authoritative medical professor who specializes in treating heart diseases,” Xu Sui pressed her thumb on the back of her hand and said “You believe me, I am a doctor.”

“In short, it must be better.” Xu Sui looked at her.

Hu Qianxi blinked and said, “Okay.”

In fact, Hu Qianxi had heard these similar words countless times since she was a child, and she knew how she was doing, but now she wanted to make Xu Sui happy.

I want to make everyone around me happy and don’t frown because of her.

In mid-December, Zhou Jingze formally joined the flight rescue team of China Shipping Ministry. Since he took office, Xu Sui has seen him the most times on the news.

Either cross-provincial search and rescue of railway workers trapped by blizzards in the western Zabei, or use helicopters to search and rescue people in distress in forest fires.

Xu Sui had very few video calls with Zhou Jingze, and every call was interrupted urgently. In fact, she had always missed him in her heart.

This month, the illness of a good friend made Xu Sui anxious and exhausted. She stayed up every day after get off work to collect a large number of data and case certificates, and contacted her colleagues as much as she could. Even the colleagues in the hospital were annoyed by her, and the other party’s tone was helpless: “Hospitalized.” She has entered ICU twice during this period. Are you still not sure if you are a clinical person? Heart failure is a clinical syndrome that develops to the later stage of heart disease. She has recurrent heart failure for a long time, and the prognosis is also poor. Oh, it’s difficult. .”

The hardest part was actually Sheng Nanzhou, running up and down for her, and kept guarding her.

In this way, Xu Sui celebrated his 28th birthday in December, the day before Christmas, Christmas Eve.

Xu Sui temporarily put aside his troubles, put on a light makeup, wore a blue velvet skirt, a pearl headband, black eyes and red lips, gentle and moving.

Zhou Jingze specially adjusted the holiday to today, saying that he would accompany her on her birthday.

Xu Sui arrived early to Zhou Jingze’s designated restaurant, which is a music restaurant. When Xu Sui was seated, the waiter handed her the menu, and Xu Sui said with a smile:

“Wait for a while, I’m waiting for someone.”

At 7:50, ten minutes before the agreed time, Zhou Jingze called. Xu Sui’s expression was pleasantly surprised, and when he answered, his voice was a little bit happy:

“Are you there yet?”

There was a whirring wind on the other end of the phone, Zhou Jingze’s voice was lowered, and came over: “Baby, sorry, there is an urgent task temporarily—”

“Ah,” Xu Sui’s eyes flashed frustrated, but his voice pretended to be relaxed, “It’s okay, I’ll ask Liang Shuang to come out and accompany me in a moment.”

“Well, happy birthday.”

After hanging up the phone, Xu Sui felt disappointed. In fact, she hadn’t seen Zhou Jingze for more than ten days and missed him very much. Xu Sui waited for a while and asked the waiter to order a table of dishes. He planned to go home and buy a cake after the meal. This birthday would be over.

At first, Xu Sui thought it was okay to eat alone, but the resident singers in the music restaurant were singing love songs. It happened to be Christmas Eve today and the surroundings were in pairs.

After eating two bites of appetizers, she put down her chopsticks, looked down at the menu, and suddenly wanted to order a glass of iced juice to stimulate her taste buds.

Xu Suizheng looked at the menu seriously, a shadow fell, and an upward voice sounded: “This lady, can you put together a table?”

“Sorry, there are people here—” Xu Sui refused without lifting his head.

Until an unexplained grin fell on the head, she spoke with a breath of laughter: “My girl has a strong sense of defense.”

Xu Sui raised his head, and when he saw the person in front of him clearly, a pear vortex appeared on his face: “Can’t you tell me?”

“It’s funny,” Zhou Jingze smiled, putting aside the cake he was carrying, “but there was a delay in picking up things on the way.”

Zhou Jingze stood in front of her, wearing a black jacket. His hair was extremely short, showing green stubble, and his face was sharp. I don’t know when he was injured. There is a scar on the brow bone. He still looks like a stubborn fellow. The field has become more mature and stable.

There are still snow particles on his broad shoulders, as if coming through the wind and snow.

Zhou Jingze opened the cake, lit three candles, lit them with a lighter, and Xu Sui put his hands together and made a wish earnestly.

The man leaned back in the chair lazily, seeing Xu Sui’s pious expression, raised his eyebrows, and joked: “My boyfriend is soaked in your light, give me a wish.”

Xu Sui opened his eyes and blew out the candle with a smile: “Okay, I’m not greedy, I will give you a wish.”

Halfway through the meal, the waiter walked forward with a leaflet and said, “Hello, today this restaurant has launched a Christmas Eve discount. There is a discount for taking pictures and checking in the circle of friends. Are the two couples? That is a discount. .”

“No, thank you.” Zhou Jingze politely refused.

Xu Sui was a little depressed. Just now, the waiter asked if the two of them was a couple. She was secretly depressed, Zhou Jingze knelt on the table with her fingers, and said:

“I’ll go to the toilet.”

“okay.”

After the person left, when Xu Suizheng was digging the yogurt in the bowl with a spoon, suddenly the large chandelier in the center of the hall went out with a “pop”, leaving only a warm dark light on each table.

A chasing light suddenly lit up not far away. Someone patted Mai. Xu Sui followed the sound and looked over. Zhou Jingze did not know when he appeared on the stage. He sat there, holding the microphone, looking straight at her position. The voice is low and deep:

“A song for the one I love.”

When the familiar prelude sounded, Xu Suixin’s mouth trembled. It was her favorite Jay Chou’s “Lovely Woman”. When she went to KTV to sing with her roommate on the college weekend, she told Hu Xixi and the others that she liked him very much.

Liang Shuang knelt down on one knee and said, “Follow me.”

Several people suddenly laughed together and twisted into a ball.

But how did he know?

Zhou Jingze’s voice was very low, and she felt her ears numb through the microphone. She was holding a can of beer in his hand, his back was slightly lowered, and his feet were on the floor, magnetic and grabbing. The voice came from his throat:

Pretty cute woman who makes me blush

The gentle and lovely woman who makes me feel bad

Smart cute woman who touched me

…Cute woman who drives me crazy

After the song was over, Zhou Jingze walked towards her. The screams and roars of the audience were about to overturn the roof. Xu Sui also became nervous. He smiled and said every word:

“Happy birthday, one by one, you gave me a wish that you just promised-not every year, but always safe.”

After joining the air rescue team, Zhou Jingze saw more life and death, joys and sorrows, and now he only hopes that the people he loves can be safe.

After the two of them had eaten, Zhou Jingze took her home. Halfway through the walk, Xu Sui realized that this was not the way home, and asked, “Where are you taking me?”

“You’ll know when you go.” Zhou Jingze said as he drove the car and looked straight ahead.

Zhou Jingze drove her to the area of ​​Yajiang District, and the car stopped at Lingnan Mansion. Xu Sui was a little startled, and got out of the car. Zhou Jingze took her in with a swipe card, and the two came to a house.

Xu Sui thought he was bringing her to meet his friends, and just about to raise his hand to knock on the door, Zhou Jingze called to her and raised his chin at her:

“Give.”

In Xu Sui’s palm is a bunch of keys.

“What’s this?” Xu Sui asked.

Zhou Jingze smiled: “Birthday present.”

Xu Sui unscrewed the key lock, pushed the door and walked in. The house is large, with three floors in total. The upper floor is a duplex with complete furniture. On the second floor, there is a master bedroom, leaning on the balcony.

“This is our future wedding room?” Xu Sui asked.

Zhou Jingze smirked, patted her head, and looked down at her: “It’s not us. The house only has your name written on it. I don’t want to be wronged by my married wife in the future, and I ran out to stay in a hotel. I have to calm down in the future quarrel. , You also drove me away.”

“This gift is too expensive—” Xu Sui took the key and wanted to return it to him.

Zhou Jingze locked her eyes tightly and smiled: “I am taking advantage of you. I don’t want to be your neighbor.”

“I want to be your roommate, the kind that can legally sleep in the same bed.”

Xu Suixin’s mouth trembled, her face was hot, she turned the subject away, and looked at the house as if it had just been renovated, and the paint on the railings was still half dry, and she asked:

“Did you buy it recently?”

Zhou Jingze put his hand in his pocket, tilted his head to think for a moment, and replied: “It looks like a sophomore, I want to take you home to see Grandpa.”

It was also the first time I wanted to have a relationship with someone, so I bought this house.